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[Sansa Clip+] A better shortcut to return to WPS

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Llorean:
You really haven't covered why using two buttons is such a significant problem that it should displace existing cross-target behavior so that it can be moved from a two-button action to a single-button action.

This isn't a case of something that can't be done at all without the change, but rather the case of something that becomes slightly easier with the change.

In fact, I'm still not wholly certain you're aware that it can be done without the change, since you mentioned it being impossible two of your posts back, and didn't acknowledge the correction.

mfe555:
I acknowledge the two button method exists, sorry for not having mentioned it. It was mentioned before in this thread:


--- Quote from: lolmaus on September 01, 2011, 01:32:30 PM ---You try to press two keys simultaneously with one hand to get to WPS but you fail.
--- End quote ---

Llorean:
Yeah, it was mentioned several times, which is why it seemed somewhat confusing that your write-up said "the only way" was to use the menu entry for "Resume Playback." Your entire proposal seems to be based around the idea that it's the only way, not mentioning what to do with the combo now that it won't be necessary, not talking about why the combo is impractical to use or anything like that. The write-up doesn't take into account the combo as an existing option, or as something that would need to be changed after your proposed changes are made.

So why not attempt to address it again from the angle of "There are currently two ways to get back to the wps, we need a third" or  "there are currently two ways to get back to the wps, we should replace one of them" since the position of "this can't be done without using the menu" that you wrote about in your proposal just simply doesn't exist, and more or less invalidates the reasoning given there of "we need this button because there's no other way than the menu entry."

mfe555:
Thanks for your feedback, incorporated below. Not sure whether the two button method should be removed if my proposal was followed:

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Sansa Clip family: Better handling of "home" in the menu (making it easier to go to the WPS)

Currently pressing "home" in the menu executes "GO_TO_PREVIOUS" which takes you back to where you have just been. If you have been browsing the menu, it toggles between the two recent menu levels which is probably not the most useful function.

Some Sansa Clip users would like to have a shortcut for going to the WPS. It is quite annoying that, after activating the file list by pressing "select", both ways of returning to the WPS without interrupting the song being played are relatively inconvenient: either going to the menu and selecting "Now playing", or using the two-button method which some users find difficult to do with one hand. In the Sansa OF, pressing "home" twice takes you to the WPS. This could be achieved in rockbox as well by changing the function of "home" in the menu.

My proposal:
Pressing "home" in the menu changes to

* the WPS
* radio mode
* recording modedepending on which of these was active before entering the menu, or before entering the file list and then changing to the menu.

From the file list, pressing "home" twice would now take you first to the menu, then to the WPS.

Llorean:
You haven't really incorporated any of my feedback. You've chosen not to address what should be done about any of the existing functionality this interferes with or duplicates, nor have you addressed why it's a bad enough problem it should displace existing functionality.

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